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                                                    README FILE FOR
 
  Wueest, B., Clematide, S., Bünzli, A., Laupper, D. & T. Frey (r&r). Electoral
  Campaigns and Relation Mining: Extracting Semantic Network Data from
  Newspaper Articles. Journal of Information Technology & Politics

                                                              19.11.2010
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DESCRIPTION
This file contains a brief description of the content of the data to replicate the results 
in Wueest et al. Electoral Campaigns and Relation Mining: Extracting Semantic Network Data from Newspaper Articles. For detailled explanations, please consult the README files in the corresponding directories.

COPYRIGTHS
Without one important exception, all original data used in this paper is freely 
accessible. It is crucial to note that we cannot publish the newspaper articles used for the paper, since the permission to electronically process these articles was 
exclusively granted by the Schweizer Mediendatenbank (Swiss Media Database) 
and Ringier AG (Publisher of Blick). If there is interest in these data, however, we 
will do our best to enable the use of the articles for other researchers.

AUTHORS
Bruno Wueest (wueest@ipz.uzh.ch)
Daniel Laupper (daniel.laupper@access.uzh.ch)
Simon Clematide (siclemat@cl.uzh.ch)

FOLDERS
- gazetteers: contains the actor and issue gazetteers.
- gold_standard: contains the gold standard data.
- software_pipeline: contains an indepth description of the software pipeline.
- tables_2-5: contains the data and syntax for the replication of tables 2 to 5.
- table_6: contains the data and instructions for the replication of table 6.
- tables_7-8: contains the data and instructions for the replication of tables 7 and 8.